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From drug trafficking to money laundering, this is how the clans dominate on the other side of the Adriatic". This is the title of a long article in the Italian newspaper "La Repubblica" that has paid special attention to the agreement between the Italian and Albanian governments to receive 36 thousand immigrants per year. In an article by the journalist Xuliano Foschini, emphasis is placed on the shortcomings of Albania to realize such an agreement. Moreover, in the article that lapsi.al brings below in full, it is pointed out that human trafficking is also among the favorite businesses of Albanian criminal groups.
"What's that expression? To go to the mouth of the wolf. Or rather: of the eagle". One of the Italian investigators who knows best the connection between organized crime and illegal immigration in our country chooses to use sarcasm because, according to him, "it would be difficult to find different words" for this issue. A connection that starts from Italy and ends in Albania, where Giorgia Meloni seeks to find solutions to our problems. The bottom line is that we are sending thousands of immigrants to where our police forces believe there is a mafia that controls and organizes their illegal traffic.
"Clandestine immigration and human trafficking", - writes the Antimafia Directorate in the latest report, "is one of the main businesses of Albanian criminal groups. The "modus operandi" used sees the organizations involved in the passage from the Albanian shores, through the channel of Otranto, of boats with many immigrants, mainly Iranians, Pakistanis, Iraqis, Egyptians, Syrians and Afghans.
They are precisely those that the Italian government seeks to recover in the Mediterranean and send to the Albanian shores.
"The landing most used by smugglers is the coast of the lower Salento and especially, that of Santa Maria di Leuca, but there are also landings on the banks of the Ionian" - writes Antinmafia. The way the system works is well documented by an operation carried out by the Guardia di Finanza and coordinated by the Lecce prosecutor's office. 4 organized groups, with a logistics base in Albania, recruited immigrants who were stranded in Greece or Turkey, through the chat they had created on Facebook.
They took them, escorted them to a hotel in Tirana and then organized the illegal transport to Italy. The cost was 6,000 euros per person and the money moved through the hawala system, which makes it impossible to trace and is therefore also their preferred way, as dozens of investigations have documented, for financing terrorist activities.
And it is precisely the illegal transfer of money, the big question mark that lies behind the operation in Albania desired by the Meloni government. For some time now, the government of Edi Rama, through important lobbyists, primarily former British Prime Minister Tony Blair (with his home in Tirana), has been seeking support in Europe to bring his country into the Union. A difficult operation precisely because of the repeated alarms that anti-money laundering agencies make for Albania, which is also making efforts with the Special Prosecutor's Office against organized crime and corruption (SPAK), but apparently it is not enough.
It is already a fact that Albanian organized crime represents one of the main global alarms. Dozens of investigations conducted first in Italy and then in the rest of Europe have documented this. All the experts on mafia connections have been repeating this for some time. From the prosecutor Giovanni Melillo, to the current head of the Naples prosecutor's office, Nicola Gratteri, who when he was in Calabria had identified the Tirana groups as the only real rivals of the Calabrians regarding cocaine trafficking.
Today the Albanians, whose criminal clans have rigid family structures, and therefore very difficult to penetrate, are perhaps the only ones, or at least the most equipped, able to speak directly to the "narcos" of South America and deal with the transportation of tons of drugs to Europe. They control the ports of Antwerp, Rotterdam and Hamburg.
They have infiltrated reaching the highest levels. In Ecuador there is a specific alarm about the degree of corruption of the ruling class at the hands of the clans of Tirana, also mentioned for the murder of the presidential candidate Fernando Villavencico, executed while he was in the electoral campaign. He called for a strong crackdown on the cocaine and blood corridor (dozens of murders in recent years) that has been created between Guayaquil, Ecuador's most populous city, and Tirana.
Trafficking has brought billions of euros to the coffers of Albanian families, who, taking advantage of the country's non-reproachable anti-money laundering legislation, are investing where they can. The result is clear to anyone who takes a tour of Albanian cities. Kids with supercars, incredible real estate investments. And now the big boom in tourism, which, as ongoing investigations in Italy document, is the perfect channel for money laundering.
All these topics were left out of the honeyed statements of Prime Minister Meloni and colleague Rama. The same as a few months ago when the Italian prime minister abandoned her vacation in Puglia to visit her Albanian friend on the other side of the Adriatic. This has created quite a bit of political embarrassment. The European Socialists, of which Rama is a member, are preparing for a meeting next week in view of the upcoming elections, but they will find themselves side by side with one who is giving a hand to the sovereignists. How narrow the sea is. / La Repubblica- Lapsi.al
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